Still learning...

So today, I checked out Moose's owie from yesterday. As we thought, he still had a sliver in there. Grr. How annoying. So I went to work on it with a bit less hesitation than yesterday. Unfortunately, since it was such a small slice, my squeeze technique was not working. Fortunately, my hubs was home and decided to try another tactic. So we got the Moose on his bed with our mini-DVD player to occupy his thoughts. I distracted him while singing along to Bob the Builder while the hubs slowly and carefully dug it out with a safety pin. Oh joy. He didn't cry and squirm nearly as much, and all of the sliver is out now. Thank goodness.

Good thing we were both around. Two heads really are better than one, huh?

We've been noticing since Monkey is all better now, that she's really acting independent and grown-up. She was before she got sick, but then it went away for like a week and a half and we forgot how much progress she's made. Since she's gotten better, she' climbing on everything. She can't always get back down, but she doesn't really care.  She's so fiesty. She's starting to understand our sign language, although she's not ready to reciprocate it just yet. She's even starting to jog a little bit. When Moose was this age, he had just started crawling and this little Monkey is jogging around the house. So weird. She's so teeny. (In my head, she's teeny anyway. I know she's quite average sized for her age.)

I feel like she's practically a toddler. She doesn't quite look the part yet, but she will soon enough.

So today was a sick day. Not for me or any of my gems, but for the hubs. Poor guy. He's trying to soak up as much resting as he can before work on Monday. He's not a guy who takes sick days. Like, ever.  Since cleaning and grocery shopping still needed to be done, it involved a lot of computer playing and movie watching for the Moose. Normally we limit him to 1 hour of computer game playing, and one movie a day. Today was an exception. Those happen on occasion. Less often than they used to, before Monkey was born. I'm proud of that. But I'm not ashamed that we had to take a different approach today. When you're a sick parent, number one, aside from feeding and keeping the kids safe, is getting better. So if you can keep them safe and fed, and also get lots of rest, and to do that you happen to have a movie running a large portion of the day, that's O.K.